OT: Worst catch phrases in sports.

[storrsroars]

I think Tim Brando read this thread.

And doubled down.

 

[EricSD]

When they score and get fouled - "The hoop and the harm". UGH.

 

[uconngb]

I think Tim Brando read this thread.

He definitely filled up the bingo card today…..by halftime!!

 

[Tenspro2002]

Every single thing Fanta and Donny ever say.

I find the “how do you do!”’thing that Brando and the insane Hornets announcer do beyond annoying. Actually most of what that Hornets guy does is beyond unhinged.

I love the Hornets announcer. Don't you dare.

 

[superjohn]

I think Tim Brando read this thread.

He covered it all.

 

[Ctedgeman]

Some guys I play with use this.

It's when their defender has their hand down (instead of up), and they pull up to shoot a 3. The "man down" is for when they make the shot, it's like the defender has been shot.

I personally like that one, though I have a different understanding of the meaning. I've always took it as if you don't get a hand up in their face and just let them take a shot with no defense, it's like your team is playing "a man down", as in they might as well only have 4 defenders out there. Not that the defender has been shot and fallen down.

 

[Martin84]

In football how many times have Mahomes, Manning, Jackson, Rodgers, Favre, Rivers, Elway, Brady, and dozens of others…. “Only Mahomes can make that throw.” Meanwhile Marino Fouts Etc have been making that play decades before.

 

[cullaville]

exit velocity -announcers get excited when the "exit velocity" is 110 but and is caught. give me exit velocity of 50 that drops in for a hit

backing into the playoffs - teams that make playoffs have legitimately made the playoffs

bye week when it is really an off week. byes advance you on a tournament or playoffs without playing a game

 

[StllH8L8ner]

My daughter’s hockey team wasn’t great this season but did finish strong. The parents are nice enough but not really ‘sports parents’ so while I appreciate the positivity they try to maintain, I don’t really need to hear a mom wearing a $900 Canadian Goose coat with a $3k coach purse on her arm yell “We got this!” down 9-1 with two minutes left in the third period.

 

[thekollieman]

“Generational talent” seems to be used at least once a year so… not exactly. To provide a specific example, everyone said it about Wemby and then again about Cooper Flagg only two years later - two people very much in the same generation.

 

[superjohn]

“Generational talent” seems to be used at least once a year so… not exactly. To provide a specific example, everyone said it about Wemby and then again about Cooper Flagg only two years later - two people very much in the same generation.

It's used almost as much as genius. You make a good song nowadays and people call you a genius.